diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b33ed15..9658db7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2581,7 +2581,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustpad"
-version = "0.1.15"
+version = "0.1.16"
 dependencies = [
  "argon2",
  "aws-config",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 57b463d..db53c2d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rustpad"
-version = "0.1.15"
+version = "0.1.16"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.94"
 description = "Collaborative Markdown notepad built with Axum, WebSockets and SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL"
diff --git a/src/db/mod.rs b/src/db/mod.rs
index e47bf7c..c412b32 100644
--- a/src/db/mod.rs
+++ b/src/db/mod.rs
@@ -181,11 +181,13 @@ pub async fn list_note_stats(
         DatabaseKind::Postgres => "$1",
         DatabaseKind::Sqlite | DatabaseKind::MySql => "?",
     };
-    // PostgreSQL promotes SUM(BIGINT) to NUMERIC. sqlx::Any cannot decode the
-    // database-specific NUMERIC type, so normalize the aggregate to BIGINT.
+    // PostgreSQL and MySQL promote SUM(BIGINT) to database-specific decimal
+    // types. sqlx::Any cannot decode those types, so normalize the aggregate
+    // to a signed 64-bit integer before reading it.
     let file_size_sum = match pool.kind() {
         DatabaseKind::Postgres => "COALESCE(SUM(f.size_bytes), 0)::BIGINT",
-        DatabaseKind::Sqlite | DatabaseKind::MySql => "COALESCE(SUM(f.size_bytes), 0)",
+        DatabaseKind::MySql => "CAST(COALESCE(SUM(f.size_bytes), 0) AS SIGNED)",
+        DatabaseKind::Sqlite => "COALESCE(SUM(f.size_bytes), 0)",
     };
     let query = format!(
         "SELECT n.id AS note_id, \